If there is anything that Holidazed is doing so well, it’s definitely getting us to look at things from all sides. The sides that we see in life, because we are looking at things from one point of view. And that point of view can be skewed (and probably is) by emotion.
But it doesn’t mean that we’re bad people because we don’t see the other side of things. A lot of times it is because we are wrapped up in our own lives and that’s okay too. A lot of the times life is just this crazy thing with a lot of drama and a lot of miscommunication. Or secrets. Lots of secrets.
The thing about secrets in life is that a lot of the time they aren’t meant to be secrets. They are just things that we become used to not saying. And when you become used to not saying things, a lot of the time you are going to end up with a lot of resentment. That’s what has happened to Sylvie and Lucy Woods. Sisters who have a lot of resentment towards each other for the reason that they’ve never been open with each other. It’s actually painful to watch, but is completely relatable.
Lucy is living her life conservatively. She’s got her daughter and she seems as though she’s afraid to do anything out of her norm. Sylvie is traveling the world, falling in love and exploring. She seems as though she never thinks anything through.
The two are polar opposites, but they are more a like than they care to admit. They need each other.
Sylvie is home for the holidays and just wants her sister to let her in. Unfortunately for her, Lucy isn’t willing to do that. She thinks that her sister doesn’t see anything all the way through, when the reality is that Sylvie just is desperate. She’s desperate for stability and for love.
She doesn’t know that Sylvie wants a family. She’s come home for the holidays because she has given her boyfriend an ultimatum basically. She wants him to move forward in their relationship and take it to the next level. Lucy doesn’t know that, because she’s so busy keeping her distance from Sylvie.
Sylvie is fighting tooth and nail for her sister to let her in. She notices that she has a crush on the handyman and manages to give her sister the confidence to ask him out. It’s sweet to watch the way that Sylvie is championing her sister.
As much as I love Sylvie, she is a little short sighted. She has the best of intentions – like when she makes a million joy bars – but doesn’t think about the bigger picture. She costs her sister a lot of money and though the marketing was great, I do understand Lucy’s issue with her using all of the supplies.
I have to admit that I cried when the two ended up fighting over it, because all of the resentments that they each had came out. Sometimes telling the truth and the things that you’ve held in is the scariest thing that you can do.
Lucy felt like she needed to grow up quickly after their Mom died. She was resentful over that. She also was hanging onto the hurt that she felt that her Mom chose adventures over her. Lucy was in pain and didn’t know how to deal with the hurt and pain that she was left with. She resents the feeling that she has that she had to give up everything to take care of her sister.
She doesn’t seem to understand that resentment isn’t fair – because Sylvie never asked her to do that. Sylvie wanted a sister. She wanted to be close to her sister and to feel that support. Sylvie has only ever wanted a family and the pain that she feels over her sisters resentment towards her is a big burden to carry.
Neither one of them are wrong.
But it takes Sylvie leaving in a big storm and Lucy figuring out that she has no where to go, for us to see any change in these two. That change will be something that they fight for and hope to build a rebuild a relationship over.
The saddest part of the episode – for me – was that Lucy’s daughter had to be the go between. Annie (Lucy’s daughter) loves her Mom and her aunt. She wants them both to have everything that they want. However, Annie is left at the end, realizing that these two don’t communicate and that she’s the only one that has known what is happening.
Her aunt has left the house and had no where to go.
Holidazed continues to blow us away with it’s innovative approach to family and the way that peoples lives intersect. It’s a beautiful depiction of family, family issues, and coming together.
Holidazed is streaming now on Hallmark+.
